It took stock-car racing driver Ray Ciccarelli just a few hours to respond to the news Wednesday that NASCAR is banning the Confederate flag from all its events and properties.
He quit. In an angry Facebook post Ciccarelli insisted he doesn’t care about the Confederate flag, but was quitting on principal.
People “love” the Confederate flag and that doesn’t make them racist, he claimed. “I don’t believe in kneeling during Anthem nor taken ppl right to fly what ever flag they love.